English language -> multilingual

"Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary."

That sentence is sort of contradictory... When we say we make a multilingual dictionary, we should not be saying that this is the English Wiktionary's goal, since the English Wiktionary is only written in English, and only links to the same articles in other languages. Do any of you guys agree that we should change it in that sentence from "Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary" to just "Welcome to Wiktionary", or should we take out the word multilingual from the sentence? I'd like to hear some input. Rædi Stædi Yæti {-skriv til mig-} 19:37, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

An English-language dictionary of all the world's languages; surely there ought to be some way to say that briefly but clearly. --Pi zero (talk) 21:18, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

The English Wiktionary is multilingual in that words in all languages are defined here. The meaning of multilingual in this case is explained in the following sentence, so I don't think that the wording is a problem. --Yair rand (talk) 21:18, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Intresting i would use this as y seguí and LEARN. Thanks Wlara123 (talk) 21:04, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

The IPA of "Wiktionary" under the top left title is incorrect. That would be pronounced like "wik-shun-rih", where the R is rolled and the last vowel sounds like the first i. It should be "wɪkʃənɛɹi". —This unsigned comment was added by 128.138.65.201 (talk) at 23:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC).

We seem to get this feedback every damn week. Can we just get rid of the stupid logo and replace it with an apple or something. Equinox◑ 00:21, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

This time the question was (presumably) asked by a Canadian student at the University of Colorado. I agree that it gets rather tiresome to have to answer the same question repeatedly (and to say that it's shown almost exactly as I pronounce it). One wonders why users cannot look up the word in Wiktionary to see the wide variety of ways in which it can be pronounced. Whether the r should be upside down is a matter of convention. It's common to see it transcribed as /r/ in English pronunciation guides but I assume that we have a policy to use /ɹ/. Dbfirs 02:12, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Why not replace it with the "Scrabble tiles" logo already available as an option under Preferences? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:52, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

I'm in favour. (And if it gets tiresome that the same feedback is given over and over again, well maybe that should be a hint that something needs to change.)

I'm only in favour of this if this is somehow programmed as a skin of some sort (default or otherwise) that can be changed per user. Tharthan (talk) 19:32, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Since we currently have the /wɪkʃənrɪ/ image as the default and the Scrabble tiles as an opt-in, presumably it would be possible to do the opposite and have the Scrabble tiles as the default and /wɪkʃənrɪ/ as an opt-in. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 20:09, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

The Uzbek Wiktionary

By the way, the name of the language is Oʻzbekcha, not Oʻzbek. We can also add the Cyrillic version, as it is still used. So, we can write Oʻzbekcha/Ўзбекча, just like on Wikipedia. Nataevtalk 04:30, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Funny. I am viewing it using the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, and the left column with the text looks like it is only taking up 20% of the window. It used to be half. — Cheers, JackLee–talk– 19:38, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

The left column looks squashed to me in Firefox, but normal in Internet Explorer. - -sche(discuss) 19:54, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Missing suffix "-therapeutic"

I would like to add a new page, but cannot find any means for doing so. Perhaps I simply do not have the privilege. The suffix creates an adjective and refers to a technique or theory of therapy associated with the base word. It appears in such recognized words as hydrotherapeutic, chemotherapeutic, bibliotherapeutic, phototherapeutic. The companion suffix, -therapeutics, indicates the body of practice or theory. These should be added to the dictionary. Thanks. Sfarney (talk) 01:20, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

This is not actually a suffix, but is instead the word therapeutic with various prefixes attached to it. Please see the Wikipedia article Suffix to learn more about affixation. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 02:12, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

I have looked at suffix, but I find nothing that contributes to your objection. The same argument could be mounted against -therapy, and yet that word has an entry in the Wiktionary. Please explain why -therapy (which is a standalone word) is a suffix in the words "xylotherapy", "psychotherapy", and "chemotherapy" appended to the non-existent words "xylo", "psycho", and "chemo", but -therapeutic is a word with a prefix in "hydrotherapeutic." Thank you. Sfarney (talk) 18:33, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

That is not the way I expected it to go, but at least it is rational and consistent. Thanks! Sfarney (talk) 21:03, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Again, see the Wikipedia article Suffix (not our definition suffix), or even better Affix. The distinction we use is based on accepted linguistic criteria. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 21:26, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Great! Problem: the form should appear as "Hausa/هَوُسَ" with a slash because the language can be in latin (boko) or Arabic script (ajami). "هَوُسَ (Hausa)", the form on the page, implies that Hausa always appears in ajami.

Good point. I wasn't sure whether to include the parenthesized English translation, since it is identical to the Latin-script Hausa form. We don't have any other cases where a language has two scripts and the Latin-script one matches up with the English spelling. --WikiTiki89 15:19, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

The second one is Hindi श(śa), the first letter of शब्दकोश(śabdakoś, “dictionary”). However, it is equivalent to Gujarati શ(śa)શબ્દકોશ(śabdakoś, “dictionary”). —Stephen(Talk) 00:54, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

"A Wild Hare," not "A Wild Hunt"

Hello. In the homepage, the link to the first episode in which Bugs Bunny officially appeared does not work. This is because the episode is A Wild Hare, not A Wild Hunt. I am unable to change the link, but could someone who has authority to do so, do it? Thanks! --The Sackinator (talk) 16:20, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Synonyms for Vulgarities

Hey all,

I was wondering if you guys could start adding synonyms for vulgar words. Although people already know better words for many of them, some people actually don't. For example sometimes I use the word "half-ass", because I have a hard time thinking of a better word for it. Many people who use those words have a limited vocabulary, and that is a big problem. I think that we should open up for people who desire to use clean language.

Would there be a way to make it appear immediately to the left of the Behind the scenes box? Currently (at least on my screen) it doesn't align to its left, but rather to its bottom-left, which causes two unnecessary white spaces to appear (one above the graph, and one to its right below the Behind the scenes box). — Kleio (t · c) 14:46, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

I thought that might have just been me, so I didn't mention it, but it would be ideal if it could be placed right after the bottom paragraph of the introductory text, rather than after the "Behind the scenes" box. And Ditto to Saltmarsh's comment below. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 20:06, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

"Recent Visits" is not sufficient explanation. It is not possible from this to understand exactly what the graph shows. Mihia (talk) 20:36, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

The template is supposed to support a "granularity" parameter that takes values like "daily", "hourly", "monthly". What we have looks like daily, not the default monthly. I don't think we have the ability to override the pseudo-default AFAICT. As the number is for daily visits to the entire project, we should be very embarrassed and worried that the numbers, if true, are so low. If it is monthly, it's even worse. I wouldn't want to advertise this low level of use. DCDuringTALK 13:53, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Really? I was pleasantly surprised. I used to think we had some 200 people visiting daily, apart from the editors. — Ungoliant(falai) 13:56, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

The wiktionary.org domain is in the top 1000 global sites according to both QuantCast and Alexa, with a monthly reach of about 2m. I think this is actually showing page views, not visits. We have around 50m monthly page views. - TheDaveRoss 15:20, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

So how is the graph supposed to be interpreted? That doesn't seem to match what it shows. DTLHS (talk) 19:14, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Hah, well that is entirely useless. I have removed the graph. DTLHS (talk) 19:21, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

That.. was just a hunch, so maybe a bit quick to delete it. Looking at the template page, I think I was mistaken. Have a look at {{PageViews graph}}. On second look, it probably displayed the hourly page views of the entire site, given that it showed about 7,500 on average, and as TheDaveRoss noted we have about 50m pageviews a month (7500 * 24 * 30 = ~54million). — Kleio (t · c) 19:36, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Wikispecies

WS is now slowly developing with less conflicts. I guess you have moved away to other things, but would kindly like to ask you to support with vote here, so we can reach the 25-30 votes minimum rule in order to be able to get local Checkusers, and get a local policy for CU, which will be the first step of developing more local solutions on WS. Dan Koehl (talk) 23:04, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Hindi

Interwiki links

Hi! Wikidata just enabled Wiktionary links, so I added all main pages in all languages to the correct item. Since the main page here only had a certain number of those links, you may want to keep it that way. To achieve that, put this somewhere on the main page: {{noexternallanglinks}}. It's a magic word that disables interwiki links from Wikidata. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 00:01, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Number of Languages

The number of languages should be updated, per the latest dump at Special:Statistics. I have to say, almost 200 more languages is an impressive increase for a month... Andrew Sheedy (talk) 23:26, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Wiktionary in Hawaiian: +100 entries

With the creation of entries with books of the Bible in Hawaiian, templates and modules in Wikimedia Incubator, the Wiktionary in Hawaiian reached 100 entries in June 22nd, 2017.

Calculation of entry count

How is the entry count calculated? I just noticed that none of the columns at WT:Statistics give the number that's on the Main Page (according to those stats, the Main Page count is a significant underestimate). Andrew Sheedy (talk) 20:54, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Well, now I'm confused. {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} is used on the "Main Page" of each Wiktionary to display the number of articles in that Wiktionary, and that's the figure that I'm familiar with. But you indicated WT:Statistics, and I don't know about that page. I don't understand the columns and I don't know how the figures are generated. There is also Wiktionary:Statistics/generated, which @Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV generates from a dump. I'm sure that Ungoliant can explain, but I don't know anything about those statistics pages. —Stephen(Talk) 20:00, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

And, to explain the difference: NUMBEROFARTICLES automatically counts the number of pages in the article namespace, whereas in the manual count of "entries" on WT:STATS, different language sections on the same page are counted as different entries. It's possible we should add the number of entries (from STATS) beside the number of articles. (The main page's count of the number of languages is already taken from, and anually updated based on, STATS.) - -sche(discuss) 19:55, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

English Dialect Dictionary

I believe that Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (six volumes from 1898 to 1905) is in the public domain. Perhaps the words can be incorporated into Wiktionary (where not already present)? Epa101 (talk) 09:07, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

We don't incorporate other dictionaries (see WT:CFI), and this wouldn't be the place to make suggestions (try WT:ID, perhaps). —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 21:35, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Project proposal: Enrichment of multilingual STM terms

Hallo,
I am proposing here a project aimed to enrich the scientific/technical/medical (STM) terms on Wikitionary. From one side, I would adds some terms automatically from the corresponding Wikipedia English pages and make an assessment of relation between the two kind of contents. The process to such evaluation/enrichment would be shared and made available as pseudo-code with the related discussion and comments. Second, I would address such procedure as a multi-language process, making some enrichment/evaluation also on Italian language (my mother tongue), also by hand. If you want to support my proposal and/or if you have questions, please add your comment at the bottom of the
project page or write me on the personal discussion page.

This idea sounds somewhat unclear, and I can't tell if you know how Wiktionary works or what content we include. In any case, this is not the right place to talk about it. If you want feedback, WT:BP might be best for this idea, but you should try giving concrete examples of what you intend to do. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 20:12, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

@Metaknowledge Thank you for your feedback. I will expose the proposal there, making the points as clear as possibile in the discussion. Best, --Marco Ciaramella (talk) 13:24, 16 January 2019 (UTC)